Autograph signatures of Augustinian officials; photographic
facsimile from MS. in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla
... 215
Autograph signatures of Dominican officials; photographic
facsimile from MS. in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla
... 223
Autograph signature of Antonio Sedeño, S. J.; photographic
facsimile from MS. in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla
... 227
Autograph signature of Pedro Baptista, O.S.F.; photographic
facsimile from MS. in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla
... 231




Preface


In this volume are recorded the more important events in the history of
the Philippine colony during the years 1591-92. The dissensions between
the secular and the ecclesiastical authorities continue, though the
governor asks, in various important public affairs, the advice of the
religious orders, and in view of a threatened invasion by the Japanese,
appeals to the ecclesiastics to cease their opposition to his measures,
and aid his efforts to save the colony. Dasmariñas does all in his
power for its defense and increase; but the unfriendly attitude of
the ecclesiastics, the restrictions laid on commerce, the poverty of
the public treasury, and the greed of officials and other influential